Welcome to the inaugural edition of This Week in Duke Tweets for the Chronicle Sports Blog, taking you through the top five Duke-sports related tweets of the week.
1) On Saturday, the men's basketball team traveled to the west coast to senior forward Kyle Singler's home-state of Oregon to take on the Ducks. Singler's brother, E.J., starts for Oregon, but it was Kyle who stole the show scoring a career-high 30 points to lead the Blue Devils to a 98-71 victory. Fellow senior Nolan Smith tweeted about his teammate's performance after the game:
2) When the Blue Devils beat No. 4 Kansas State, it gave Coach Krzyzewski his 800th win at Duke. Though Coach K doesn't have a Twitter account, he got a shout-out of praise from one of his players, Seth Curry:
3) Duke's depth and offensive versatility are often listed as its strong suits this year, and this was highlighted in their victory over Kansas State as college basketball analyst (and Duke graduate) Seth Davis pointed out:
4) Oregon is perhaps most famous as the alma mater of Nike founder Phil Knight. After the game, Nolan Smith got to meet this pioneer of sports gear, but "Chillin" is what was on his mind:
5) Finally, now that the Thanksgiving break is over, the basketball players show us there are two ways to get back into the groove of things. One the one hand, there is Casey Peters who tweeted about his relaxing afternoon with Kyle Singler:
On the other hand, Kyrie Irving tweeted about his studious afternoon with his fellow freshman basketball players Josh Hairston and Tyler Thornton:
Keep up with the Chronicle Sports Blog and make sure to come back next Monday for the next edition of This Week in Duke Tweets.
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